Bowl of Worms Anyone?

Create tasty, edible worms. This recipe is simple and great for Halloween, April Fool's, or anytime you feel like snacking on wormy goodness! If you can make jello, then you can make these cool looking worms.

2) Let it cool to lukewarm and then add the whipping cream and 15 drops green food coloring.

3) Gather your straws (don't forget to flex them out) and put them in the container. It's important that the straws have a tight fit so the jello stays in the straws. For this reason, a 1 liter carton may be better; you will probably get longer worms since there is a tighter fit. If you have a bigger container, a rubber band around the straws is helpful. Or you could just add more straws to fill the container.

4) Add the gelatin mixture to the straw-filled container and let it set until firm.

5) There are multiple ways you can remove the worms from the straws. You can roll a rolling pin over the straws and squeeze them out or you can hold the straws over warm water. The worms will slip right out.

If any of u are having trouble making this..and getting it to to go thicker..than just use some corn starch..i thought it tasted fine with the corn startche in it..i couldn't even notice it had corn startche

tried making them last night as a trial run for halloween and they didnt set properly i used raspberry jelly and whipping cream and gelitine as stated what went wrong as the mixture was still too soft great idea if it works

@Sam2010 : Since all you need is for portions of the worm to be cloudy, I'd use a non-dairy powdered coffee creamer. You can add it in straight with the powdered gelatin if you don't mind the whole worm being opaque. There are a lot of non-dairy varieties/brands to choose from, just be sure that the "hidden dairies" are in fact absent. I hope your son can have the worms, children really do love food they can play with.

For anyone having trouble getting the worms out, I found two things that really helped.1) Warm up the straw a little (running some warm water for just a second was great. Submerging the straw, not so much.2) Use a point nozzle with a bike pump to blow them out.

You could probably get an empty syringe (sans needle) from your local pharmacy really cheap or free. They give them to parents which helps them dispense liquid medication to babies. Just use the syringe to push air into the straws to blow them out. Great idea with holding the straws under warm running water.

I would also like to point out that because all of the gelatin-filled straws are being held together in one small area (compared to being spread out on in a pan), they will need a longer set time before they should be removed.

I tried these for Halloween at work yesterday. They came out great! If you follow the instructions, to the letter and let them solidify in the fridge overnight, they come out fine. The hardest (and messiest) part was getting them out of the straws. If you take them out of the carton and let them sit loose for a few minutes, or hold them at both ends over hot water for a few seconds, squeezing them out is not a problem. They were a hit, though people were afraid to eat them at first.

These were near impossible for me to make! I tried so many ways to get them out of the straws and the only thing that eventually worked "OK" was to bend the straw in half and squeeze it out all the way down then turn it over and squeeze it out the other end. I was wondering why it was so difficult, because seriously, I had to use herculean strength to get them out that way also (my fingers are actually sore) and they still came out kind of mangled looking (they didn't all keep the tube shape very well). The solid color parts looked neat and were slightly easier to push out put the see through colored parts were freaking hard! So, I did some research (which I should've done before hand, duh), and in this recipe it calls for 1 pkg unflavored gelatin and that confused me, since I've never used unflavored gelatin I only used 1 ENVELOPE instead of the whole box which is what other recipes call for, so, next time I will be using the WHOLE BOX OF UNFLAVORED GELATIN and hopefully not go insane trying to make this. *fingers crossed*

There is an instructable on making arugula spaghetti Isimilar principle) that uses a giant syringe and rubber tubing. The syringe concept would work really well here. See the video, which makes it look easy: